On Monday’s Radio Show…
September 28th, 2009, 6:00 PM EDT
• Liberty Counsel President Mat Staver defends his “Adopt a Liberal” campaign, which calls on conservatives to pray for liberals to become “right thinking.”
• Alan confronts white separatist leader Jeff Schoep, whose group responded to a school bus brawl by rallying for “white civil rights.”
• Just when Alan thinks they can’t get any worse, the wingnuts prove him wrong again and again and again… and again and again. And again. Alan tries to make sense of the madness.
Liberty Counsel President Mat Staver defends his “Adopt a Liberal” campaign, which calls on conservatives to pray for liberals to become “right thinking.”
Well, at least Staver is helping divert conservatives from wishing they could shoot us!
(I’m JUST KIDDING, conservatives! Take it easy, now…)
libpatriot Reply:
September 28th, 2009 at 9:17 pm
To all conservatives who wish to adopt me:
Pray that I win the Powerball this month!
(Thank you, THANK YOU….)
John Galt Reply:
September 28th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
Pray that I win the Powerball this month!
Tsk tsk tsk patriot. You know why many lottery winners end up losing their fortune, right?
karthiks030977 Reply:
September 28th, 2009 at 10:58 pm
Why?Taxes?
John Galt Reply:
September 28th, 2009 at 11:12 pm
Why?Taxes?
No.
The lottery self selects only those people with poor financial skills to play.
In other words, if you are good with money, you don’t play.
libpatriot Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 2:14 am
True, John, and I don’t really play the lottery; I was just being cheeky (again).
EricG Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 8:06 am
I hadn’t thought of that … it might be true.
Daddio Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 8:11 am
The thought never came to mind Eric. Who would we debate if we wanted to shoot you? :)
EricG Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 8:20 am
That’s only mildly funny.
That’s like ‘ha-ha’ but I don;t like talking about shooting people. I don’t like that kind of rap music (caps in your a__) for the same reason.
Disagreement is great, I think.
I just think sometimes people are not listening to either side and that’s that “echo chamber” thing.
People are always shocked at how much they agree on, it’s always the ‘how to’ that is so different between liberals and conservatives.
I don’t think making assumptions about Obama is ‘how to’ get the conservative voice out there.
But that’s me, I’m no conservative.
Daddio Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 8:31 am
I don’t know of any serious conservative that has promoted the shooting of any liberal.
EricG Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 12:32 pm
You should read backwards in this blog here that Alan does.
Something about “Democrat tags”…
I’d go find the link but I know it’s there.
Actually they do, Daddio.
I like humor and jokes. I just find them less funny when it’s about shooting someone.
I don’t laugh much at the far left pro-violent humor either.
Both sides do that stuff, I just think it’s more popular on the right than the left.
September 28th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
Just when Alan thinks they can’t get any worse, the wingnuts prove him wrong again and again and again… and again and again. And again. Alan tries to make sense of the madness.
Ah, THAT explains the high-flying trapeze episode! Sometimes you have to go to unusual measures to attain the right frame of mind to understand right-wingnuts who see the world upside-down.
September 28th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
Alan confronts white separatist leader Jeff Schoep, whose group responded to a school bus brawl by rallying for “white civil rights.”
Schoep doesn’t know history very well, does he?
We whities have had most/all the civil rights for centuries now! But, acknowledging that would take out all the fun for cons that love to play the victim, I guess.
September 28th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Interesting. Just saw this:
bcaplan.com/cgi-bin/purity.cgi
Take it, see where you are, think where you think I am and then lemme know what your score is.
libpatriot Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 12:07 am
John Galt, that was kind of interesting, that test!
I scored a 27, in the “You are a soft-core libertarian. With effort, you may harden and become pure” range.
And I guess I MUST BE a soft-core libertarian, because when I saw, “Should the law be privatized?”, I immediately thought, “What the h*ll kind of question is THAT?”
libpatriot Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 12:10 am
I’m guessing, JG, that you scored at least 70.
John Galt Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 12:21 am
61.
I break from most other conservatives when it comes to public education, reducing the budget of the military, the belief that we should have some tax and in keeping some services in the hands of the state.
On the other hand, I do believe in lower taxes, eliminating the minimum wage [a clear regressive policy that only hurts those it intends to help] and the privatization of roads and such.
jazmine Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 12:26 am
John, you want to eliminate, the minimum wage…to what? I’m afraid to ask!
John Galt Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 12:33 am
John, you want to eliminate, the minimum wage…to what? I’m afraid to ask!
Every employee offers a benefit to his/her employer. Some employees offer higher benefits; others low. Further, at some point, a business only has so much money they can pay in wages. For example, the local pizzeria can only sell so many pizzas and so can hire only so many workers.
Now, when the cost of hiring a worker is more than the benefit that workers gives to the employer, he doesn’t hire that worker. That is, if I get an extra $10 an hour by hiring johnny, and I can hire johnny for only $7 an hour, I’ll hire him.
By artificially raising the cost of hiring johnny to a level that exceeds his “return to the business”, he is priced out of a job. No one is going to hire a worker that returns $6 for a wage of $7.
The minimum wage prices people out of work. Often these are people without skills at the current time or the young. Of all of the people that I can think of who need “experience” in the work place, it is these people.
In a more simple way: When the price of a thing increases people will buy less of it. This is true of beer, cars, blue jeans and labor.
John Galt Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 12:35 am
John, you want to eliminate, the minimum wage…to what?
I re-read your question. I think that you were asking what I would reduce the minimum wage to. The answer is $0.00. I don’t think that an employer should be forced to discriminate against low skilled and young workers by poorly written legislation.
Lee Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 1:10 am
“I re-read your question. I think that you were asking what I would reduce the minimum wage to. The answer is $0.00.”
Wow, I actually agree with you on something.
Minimum wage is one area where I largely support the position on the Right. It tackles a problem (exploitation of workers) with a hatchet instead of a razor.
EricG Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 8:25 am
This is my field, in a way.
Psychology applies to these questionnaires directly to the words in the questions.
You have to use a completely scientific, which means non-biased, methodology to have an accurate result of any kind.
That question is sort of like asking:
“Do you get upset when guilty criminals go free?”
It’s asking nothing.
A better example might be:
“Do you agree with me or are you wrong?”
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That’s why I’m skeptical of all “diagrams” and “polls” in politics.
anonymouse Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 12:47 am
I scored 16. I’m surprised I scored even that high.
John Galt Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 12:49 am
I’m not.
anonymouse Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 12:57 am
The idea of private schools, military, cops and firemen sort of turns me off. Sorry.
In your Libertarian utopia, once everyone is paying their “johnny” $7/hr, you’ll find johnny can’t afford your pizzas anymore. Then, you’ll have to reduce your pizza prices and we’ll all be right back where we started.
jazmine Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 1:03 am
Now, I know for sure your an alien.
Minimum wage is set to Zero, so how do expect to prosper, seeing your employees are slaves. Gotcha, your dream is to live the plantation live, John you don’t have a plantation, no cotton, no funky smoke, now what?
Slavery has been abolished, haven’t you heard. Guess not, he’s running from the wife.
Amen!
libpatriot Reply:
September 29th, 2009 at 2:17 am
“Slavery has been abolished, haven’t you heard. Guess not, he’s running from the wife.”
(lol)
September 28th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Your “Joo boy – puking” caller?
The accent. I place him from about … Georgia. He’s from somewhere near Atlanta or south of there. Macon, or maybe as far as Valdosta.
You might also recognize the voice as “Cooter” from “The Dukes of Hazzard”.
How come none of these crackers ever sound like they’re from Wisconsin or Minnesota? Eh?
The South shall RISE again!!! Yeehaw!!!
September 29th, 2009 at 12:03 am
Elmo -
YEAH! Before I get to that … Elmo is a caller from the “old days” of Alan Colmes Radio. That’s great it hear him call in again. He is a total nut but he’s REALLY funny!
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So, Alan is not the right person to point out what he is “good” at because, well he is kind of humble. It’s a good trait in a person.
Allow to speak on his behalf:
Alan is a excellent, nay superb, interviewer. Asking the key questions and using phraseology that cuts to the heart of the matter without isolating the interviewee.
If you listen to a lot of media, particularly political-talk media, you never his name mentioned but people will bring up “so-and-so said this about that” and then their co-host asks who asked that question of them and it’s always “I don’t know” when everyone including the host knows the answer is actually “Alan Colmes”.
The other part of what Alan is good at, that all people working in the media are good at in their own way, is essentially just finding things that interest you. Things that Elmo wants to hear. (Oh great, now I’ve got kids songs in head!)
And the big-bad of what Alan Colmes is “good” at is dealing with people like Elmo in a way that’s not … uh … rude. Like I would probably be with many of his callers or perhaps that whole White Civil Rights group for instance.
Alan was so nice about this but I think he should have told Elmo that he doesn’t come down to his house to slap the lips off his mouth when he is telling his jokes, so he should stop trying to slap the microphone out from my mouth!
And conservatives always do long-boring MONOLOGUES about how great they are and that’s why they are the ones who should be asked this same question.
What did they do? No, really? Their shows are just them talking for three hours … it’s more like podcasting-out than doing radio with most these jokers.
What do they even need the phone lines for? Or the newspapers? Or the internet?
They have conviction and no facts and a radio show…
Alan is good at radio, that’s not true for some of the others of The FOX Family.
September 29th, 2009 at 8:02 am
Do you have any idea how many Neo-Nazis called into the show tonight!?! I am so glad to some conservatives speak out against these racists because these people do hide themselves in the ideology when our grandfathers fought and died fighting this kind of fascism in days past! No American supports these people, not one. Only the left-over minions of Hitler. Lunatics.
September 29th, 2009 at 8:32 am